The Sad Variety
First edition | |
| Author | Cecil Day-Lewis |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Nigel Strangeways |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | Collins Crime Club |
Publication date | 1964 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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| Preceded by | The Worm of Death |
| Followed by | The Morning after Death |
The Sad Variety is a 1964 thriller novel written by the Anglo-Irish writer Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake. It is the fifteenth and penultimate entry into the series featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways. It marked a move away from the murder mysteries of the earlier novels into the then-fashionable spy novel genre.